A steel-hearted industrialist, Morley punishes his wayward daughter, Sharon, with a devastating choice. She must surrender her young son, Laurence, to the tycoon's care and forever vanish from the boy's Iife. ln return the boy wilI be raised in Iuxury with every educationaI advantage. Her aIternative is to have her son continue to share her life of struggle and squaIor. TearfuIly, she leaves her beloved boy with his grandfather, expecting to never see him again. The coIlapse of the stock market wipes out the oId man's fortune. Abandoned by his friends and terminalIy iII, he stiII refuses to forgive his daughter, the one person on earth who cares about him. Only the Iove for his grandson, the one spark of warmth in his cold stubborn heart, has a chance of redeeming this tortured famiIy. |